Is JDBC input plugin installed default while installing logstash 1.4.2 or logstash 1.5.4?

thiruna · November 12, 2015, 5:31pm

Hi,

is JDBC input plugin installed default while installing logstash 1.4.2 or logstash 1.5.4?

We need to use this plugin for Oracle Database.

How to know the list of input plugins installed on logstash 1.4.2?

I can able to see the list of input plugins in logstash 1.5.4 using below command in linux.

bin/plugin list --group input

Thanks,
Thiru.

magnusbaeck · November 12, 2015, 7:36pm

The installable plugin support and hence the plugin command was added in Logstash 1.5. I'm pretty sure the jdbc input plugin doesn't support 1.4 (even if installed manually).

thiruna · November 12, 2015, 10:57pm

Thanks Magnusbaeck for your reply on this....!

warkolm · November 12, 2015, 11:00pm

JDBS only works with 1.5+, and doesn't come installed by default in either 1.5 or 2.0.

thiruna · November 13, 2015, 4:43pm

Thanks for the update...Warkolm....!

thiruna · November 13, 2015, 7:22pm

Hi,

This is to install logstash-input-jdbc plugin in logstash 1.5.4
Can we have a separate plugin directory that we can install to?

Thanks,
Thiru.

warkolm · November 14, 2015, 3:49am

Not currently, no.

magnusbaeck · November 14, 2015, 1:55pm

Can we have a separate plugin directory that we can install to?

Why would you want to have that?

thiruna · November 16, 2015, 4:30pm

Magnusbaeck,

We don't have permission to install the logstash-input-jdbc plugin where logstash installed by admin.

So we thought of installing into separate folder if we can.

Thanks,
Thiru.

thiruna · November 16, 2015, 4:30pm

Thanks Mark for your update on this.

warkolm · November 16, 2015, 10:45pm

Please do raise a feature request on Github for this

thiruna · November 17, 2015, 12:32am

Yes Mark. We need it when admin installed the logstash with admin privilege. Then we don't have option to install plugin to try with new features like logstash-input-jdbc..etc....!....

magnusbaeck · November 17, 2015, 6:49am

You realize that you can run Logstash without it being installed by the sysadmin? If you run Logstash from somewhere in your home directory (or wherever you have write access) you can install the plugins however you like.

thiruna · November 17, 2015, 7:50pm

Magnusbaeck,

Yes. We have logstash 1.4.2 installed on our home directory and we installed contrib plugin without having permission issue. However logstash 1.5.4 installed under different directory where we have issue with permission to install logstash-input-jdbc plugin. We may need to request our admin to install logstash 1.5.4 in our home directory to resolve this issue now. It will be great if we have separate plugin directory in future as Mark mentioned it in his previous response on this query.

Thanks,
Thiru.

magnusbaeck · November 17, 2015, 7:51pm

I don't get it. Why would you need sysadmin help for installing Logstash in your own home directory?

thiruna · November 17, 2015, 8:07pm

Magnusbaeck,

We have only one account which is our home directory in prod server.

Will install it in dev server where we have our own directory.

Thanks for your immediate response on this..